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Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

Mark Twain
Wise, Children, Lying
Mark Twain (2008). “Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

Mark Twain
Men, Ignorant

Too much is just enough.

Mark Twain
Too Much, Enough

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

Mark Twain
Cities, Trying, Chicago
Mark Twain (2014). “Life On The Mississippi”, p.643, Jazzybee Verlag

That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

Mark Twain
Sweet, Remember, Endure

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Funny, Learning
Life on the Mississippi ch. 6 (1883)

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

Mark Twain
Doe, Judgment, Good Judgment

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

Mark Twain
Boys, Towns, Small Town
Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings”, p.339, Penguin

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Mark Twain
Inspiration, Thinking, Twenties

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Inspiring, Education
Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Mark Twain
Life, Garden, Years

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

Mark Twain
Logic, Tradition, Harder
1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, ch.5.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

Mark Twain
Courage, Believe, Bravery
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.33, Courier Corporation

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

Mark Twain
Writing, Hands, Pockets

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Mark Twain
Mothers Day, Mom, Baby
Mark Twain (1961). “Twain: Wit and Wisecracks”

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

Mark Twain
Self Esteem, Men, Average
Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.324, Mark Twain

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

Mark Twain
Wisdom, Men, Moon

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

Mark Twain
Funny, Humor, Giving
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

Mark Twain
Knowledge, Knows, Known
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.117, Courier Corporation

Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

Mark Twain
Feelings, Ink, Hot
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.122, Courier Corporation

Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

Mark Twain
Religious, Religion, Littles

I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

Mark Twain
Able, Enough, Undertaker
Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

Mark Twain
Fishing, Reason, Certain
Mark Twain (2006). “The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories”, p.23, Penguin

Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

Mark Twain
Love, Marriage, Love Is

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Mark Twain
Book, Beer, Men

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